Related Research Articles
A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century.
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.
SS United States is a retired ocean liner built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title she still holds.
Commodore Alexander Murray was an officer who served in the Continental Navy, the Continental Army, and later the United States Navy, during the American Revolutionary War, the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War in North Africa.
A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship, within the fuselage of an airplane, or a car. Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads.
Champion of the Seas was the second largest clipper ship destined for the Liverpool, England - Melbourne, Australia passenger service. Champion was ordered by James Baines of the Black Ball Line from Donald McKay. She was launched 19 April 1854 and was abandoned 3 January 1877, off Cape Horn.
Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won in 1994 the second Jules Verne Trophy, for which they were also given the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards. In 2007, at the age of 67, he set a record as the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the Velux 5 Oceans Race.
Sir Lancelot was a clipper ship which sailed in the China trade and the India-Mauritius trade.
America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing trophy.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a biennial sailing race that takes paying amateur crews on one or more legs of a circumnavigation of the globe in 11 specially-designed identical yachts owned by Clipper Ventures. Professional skippers and additional qualified persons (AQPs) lead each teams on the 10-month journey. All participants must complete a four-week training course before starting the race. The race was conceived in 1995 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and is run by Clipper Ventures plc. The race has been held every two years since 1996, although in 2004 there was not a race and biennial racing resumed in 2005.
When launched in 1853, Great Republic was the largest wooden ship in the world. She shared this title with another American-built ship, the steamship Adriatic. She was also the largest full-rigged ship ever built in the United States. She was built by Donald McKay for trade on his own account to Australia.
Grinnell, Minturn & Co. was one of the leading transatlantic shipping companies in the middle 19th century. It is probably best known today as being the owner and operator of the Flying Cloud, arguably the greatest of the clipper ships.
USS Nightingale was originally the tea clipper and slave ship Nightingale, launched in 1851. USS Saratoga captured her off Africa in 1861; the United States Navy then purchased her.
USS R. B. Forbes was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Originally built in either 1845 or 1846, the vessel saw service as a tugboat and briefly a lightship at Boston, Massachusetts. Built by Otis Tufts and named after Robert Bennet Forbes, she was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England.
Seatruck Ferries was a UK-based freight-only ferry company which commenced services in 1996. It became a subsidiary of CLdN and was absorbed into the Luxembourg-based parent's overall brand as CLdN RoRo in February 2024. It operated out of four ports on the Irish Sea, including Heysham and Liverpool.
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, located at 219 S. 6th Street between St. James Place and Locust Street in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a special collections library and museum founded in 1814. The Athenaeum's purpose, according to its organizational principles, is to collect materials "connected with the history and antiquities of America, and the useful arts, and generally to disseminate useful knowledge" for public benefit.
John Willis Griffiths was an American naval architect who was influential in his design of clipper ships and his books on ship design and construction. He also designed steamships and war vessels and patented many inventions. Maritime historian William H. Thiesen wrote, "Of all the nineteenth-century American shipbuilders, John W. Griffiths did more than any other builder to champion American shipbuilding methods. An experimenter, an advocate for formal ship-design education, and a working intellectual, Griffiths proved to be most remarkable of America’s nineteenth-century shipbuilders.”
Ambassador is a United Kingdom tea clipper built in 1869. She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was W. Lund & Co's first tea clipper. She is now a beached wreck in southern Chile.
Sweepstakes was an 1853 clipper ship in the California trade. She was known for a record passage from New York to Bombay, and for a race around the Horn with three other clippers.
Sea Serpent was an 1850 extreme clipper that sailed in the San Francisco trade, the China trade, and the transatlantic lumber trade. She was one of the longest lived clippers, with a service life of 36 years and 5 months.
References
- ↑ "Ujifusa, Steven". German National Library (in German). Retrieved September 27, 2024.
- ↑ "Athenaeum Literary Award". Athenaeum of Philadelphia . Archived from the original on May 16, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
- ↑ "The Best Non-Fiction of 2012". Wall Street Journal . December 14, 2012. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- ↑ "Literary Medal". Saint Nicholas Society . Archived from the original on July 18, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
- ↑ Reviews for A Man and His Ship:
- Gordon, John Steele (August 17, 2012). "The Anti-Titanic". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- Freeman, Jay (June 1, 2012). "A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States". Booklist . Vol. 108, no. 19–20. American Library Association . Retrieved October 3, 2024– via Gale.
- "A Man and His Ship". Kirkus Reviews . May 6, 2012. Archived from the original on November 22, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- Mercogliano, Salvatore R. (Winter 2012–2013). "Reviews". Sea History . No. 141. p. 53. Retrieved October 4, 2024– via Issuu.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - Preul, Don (February 2013). "A Man and His Ship". U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings . Vol. 139, no. 2. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- Stillwell, Paul (January 2013). "Looking Back - The Last Great American Liner". Naval History . Vol. 27, no. 1. U.S. Naval Institute. Archived from the original on May 19, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- "A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly . May 21, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- ↑ Reviews of Barons of the Sea:
- "Barons of the Sea". Kirkus Reviews . April 10, 2018. Archived from the original on May 20, 2024. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
- "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly . May 7, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- Collins, Cary C. (2019). "BARONS OF THE SEA: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper ship". Journal of the West : 85–86. EBSCOhost 144650150
- Demy, Timothy J. (July 27, 2023). "Steven Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea, and Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Timothy J. Demy". The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord. 33 (1): 154–156. doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1119. ISSN 2561-5467.
- Donoghue, Steve (July 17, 2018). "'Barons of the Sea' chronicles the race to build the perfect clipper ship". Christian Science Monitor . ISSN 0882-7729. Archived from the original on March 22, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- Kj (2018). "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship". Foreign Policy (230): 85. ISSN 0015-7228. JSTOR 26535823.
- Ewing, James (February 1, 2019). "Pelagic thoroughbreds". The New Criterion . 37 (6): 66–67. EBSCOhost 134368442
- Steagall, Jason L. (June 2, 2018). "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race To Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship". Library Journal . 143 (10): 113. EBSCOhost 129811255
- ↑ Reviews of The Last Ships from Hamburg:
- Cole, Diane (November 17, 2023). "Voyage to the Golden Land". The Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on December 17, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- Drent, Jan (June 28, 2024). "Steven Ujifusa, The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Jan Drent". The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord. 33 (3–4): 580–583. doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1225. ISSN 2561-5467.
- Nasaw, David (February 12, 2024). "The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration". The New York Times . Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- "The Last Ships from Hamburg". Kirkus Reviews . September 23, 2023. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
- "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly . September 11, 2023. Archived from the original on August 27, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
